Auto generation of File Name with Date stamp

[MogaRaghu]

Please see the attached VI. ( LV2012)

What i want that to do is to generate a file name in the format : DayOfYear - Month - Date - Year . txt

The way I have coded it, I was able to genarate as per my requirement. For example today it generated a file name "14-1-14-2016.txt " on my computer.

But the same code when run on the client computer generated this : 14-1/-4/-016 .txt and obviously the VI stopped due to the illegal file name. I gues this is beacuse the way each computer formats the date , time information.

How to code a generic VI to create the file name as i require on any computer ??

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

Just let the Format Date/Time String do all of the work...

[aputman]

The problem with your code is in the Replace Substring.  It will work when the month has 2 digits but will fail when there is one digit.  That's why it worked in December but failed in January.  You're replacing the third and sixth character with a dash.

12/25/2015   -    Works

1/15/2016    -    Doesn't work

[MogaRaghu]

That was pretty fast and exactly what I wanted ! Thansk Crossrulz.

The attached VI works like i wanted !!

[ben64]

Personnaly I much prefer the use of %Y-%m-%d. When you sort by name the files also get sorted by date.

Ben64

[MogaRaghu]

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@ben64 wrote:

Personnaly I much prefer the use of %Y-%m-%d. When you sort by name the files also get sorted by date.

Ben64

 
Yes you are right Ben. Good idea !!